P.H Vellacott agrees that his father doomed him from the start by making the mistake of, “marrying Jocasta” (Vellacott 207). Oedipus may have been too proud to realize that he had killed his father and married his mother, yet in his eyes there was no way that he was born of Thebes, as a mere infant he was cast to live in a distant land where he was told that he was the birth son of another family. Since he had no recollection or idea that Thebes was his place of birth he figured that he was safe by running from his “home”. Oedipus ran from his home of Corinth in order to find the prophecy to be false, there is no way that he would ever assume that he had found his true birthplace and continued to complete the prophecy. He only realizes what he has done when the messenger brings him new that his father Polybus had died not by his hand, but that he was never his real
P.H Vellacott agrees that his father doomed him from the start by making the mistake of, “marrying Jocasta” (Vellacott 207). Oedipus may have been too proud to realize that he had killed his father and married his mother, yet in his eyes there was no way that he was born of Thebes, as a mere infant he was cast to live in a distant land where he was told that he was the birth son of another family. Since he had no recollection or idea that Thebes was his place of birth he figured that he was safe by running from his “home”. Oedipus ran from his home of Corinth in order to find the prophecy to be false, there is no way that he would ever assume that he had found his true birthplace and continued to complete the prophecy. He only realizes what he has done when the messenger brings him new that his father Polybus had died not by his hand, but that he was never his real